Tag: News

Managing Outbound Dialling lists strategically to Maximise Collections

Posted on 09/27/12 in Aspect, News, No Comments

JOHANNESBURG – September 27, 2012 – Outbound Dialling List management strategies ensure that the accounts representing the highest risk to the collections process are targeted with the right treatment in order to maximise collections. Some collections companies operate in multiple locations, often with competing debtor contact strategies and different methods and philosophies for managing portfolio risk. To [...]

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Ocular Technologies announces Aspect Contact, maximising users’ Microsoft Lync deployment

Posted on 09/27/12 in Aspect, Microsoft Lync, News, No Comments

JOHANNESBURG – September 27, 2012 – Contact centre solutions provider, Ocular Technologies, has introduced Aspect Contact, helping enterprises maximise their return from Microsoft Lync deployments. Aspect Contact is a multimedia contact centre solution that is ideal for contact centres and help desks up to 100 seats and, according to Pommie Lutchman, CEO at Ocular Technologies, [...]

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Optimising agent performance in collections organisations

Posted on 09/12/12 in Aspect, News, No Comments

JOHANNESBURG – September 12, 2012 – Collections contact centres predominantly make outbound calls, but also generate inbound call traffic. These types of centres, that handle both incoming and outgoing calls, are faced with a critical decision – how to efficiently and effectively balance inbound and outbound volumes to achieve excellent service and to optimise agent productivity. [...]

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Key to heightened customer experience is a Next-Generation Customer Contact Centre solution

Posted on 08/29/12 in Aspect, Microsoft Lync, News, No Comments

JOHANNESBURG – August 29, 2012 – Financial services providers are becoming increasingly reliant on next-generation customer contact and workforce optimisation solutions to create and sustain differentiation through exceptional customer experience. Credit card lenders, in particular, have realised that product improvement alone is not enough to drive long-term profitability in an environment of radically changing, heightened customer [...]

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Nine things every contact centre needs to know about workforce productivity

Posted on 08/19/11 in Aspect, News, No Comments

JOHANNESBURG – August 10, 2011 – Contact centres need to go beyond cost savings and become revenue contributors for companies to remain competitive. The contact centre also needs to stop being managed solely for efficiency, convince the business that it has the potential to build customer loyalty, win new customers and increase revenue. This is [...]

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Ocular partners with pioneering headset manufacturer

Posted on 04/13/11 in News, Plantronics, No Comments

Contact centre solutions provider, Ocular Technologies, has partnered with the leading designer, manufacturer and marketer of lightweight communications headset products, Plantronics, enhancing its competitiveness in the contact centre arena by offering a complete unified communication (UC) services portfolio and becoming a one-stop shop for customers. “Ocular Technologies has always partnered with industry leaders to provide [...]

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Workforce Management Landscape 2011

Posted on 03/22/11 in Aspect, News, 2 Comments

A Contact Centre can provide a number of important, tangible benefits. First, an increased focus on customer service is likely to lead to more efficient methods in handling significant levels of customer interactions. This, in turn leads to a reduction in transaction costs where the majority of simple customer interactions are handled by dedicated, well-trained [...]

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Dreading a disaster? Keep your customers happy regardless

Posted on 03/11/11 in News, Ocular, No Comments

By Ebrahim Dinat, sales and marketing director at Ocular Technologies October 06, 2008 – With personnel strikes, power failures and broken or stolen cables becoming common anomalies in South Africa, organisations are more aware than ever that planning and preparation, particularly with regard to critical business structures such as contact centres, is of the utmost [...]

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Ocular Technologies partners with Altitude Software

Posted on 02/25/11 in Altitude, News, No Comments

September 29, 2008 – Contact centre technologies and CRM service provider, Ocular Technologies, and Altitude Software, a leading global independent contact centre solutions vendor, has announced a partnership to provide the growing South African BPO industry with customer interaction management software solutions. According to Pommie Lutchman, Ocular managing director, this will expand the company’s customer [...]

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